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Earth's Changing Climate and Enhanced Erosion of the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast
The goal of our 3-year program of research on the coast of the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) is to document the climate controls on the ocean processes that are responsible for its erosion and flooding hazards. The review presented in this paper focuses on the climate and tectonic controls on the alongcoast variations in sea levels, the multidecadal increase in deep-water wave heights and its effects on coastal wave-breaker heights and swash runup elevations at the shore, and the multiple processes connected with strong El Niños that are important to episodes of major coastal impacts. These multiple processes are being integrated into PNW management programs, involving applications of models that calculate total water levels and their potential impacts to shore-front properties, with the results used to project hazard zones (setbacks) that account for Earth's evolving climate.
Earth's Changing Climate and Enhanced Erosion of the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast
The goal of our 3-year program of research on the coast of the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) is to document the climate controls on the ocean processes that are responsible for its erosion and flooding hazards. The review presented in this paper focuses on the climate and tectonic controls on the alongcoast variations in sea levels, the multidecadal increase in deep-water wave heights and its effects on coastal wave-breaker heights and swash runup elevations at the shore, and the multiple processes connected with strong El Niños that are important to episodes of major coastal impacts. These multiple processes are being integrated into PNW management programs, involving applications of models that calculate total water levels and their potential impacts to shore-front properties, with the results used to project hazard zones (setbacks) that account for Earth's evolving climate.
Earth's Changing Climate and Enhanced Erosion of the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast
Komar, Paul D. (author) / Allan, Jonathan C. (author) / Ruggiero, Peter (author)
Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference 2011 ; 2011 ; Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2011 ; 209-220
2011-06-21
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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